Look up movie by imdb ID

[SandmanCL]

Some movie names are difficult to find with imdb. How about allowing the user to input tt0116126 or 0116126 instead of

"Don't Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood"

and search accordingly ? :grin:

It would bypass the need to scrape the search page altogether since the URI is deterministic: imdb dot com/title/tt0116126/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116126/

[C-Quel]

Some movie names are difficult to find with imdb. How about allowing the user to input tt0116126 or 0116126 instead of

"Don't Be a Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood"

and search accordingly ? :grin:

It would bypass the need to scrape the search page altogether since the URI is deterministic: imdb dot com/title/tt0116126/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116126/

My question is why? seems like hard work when you can just grab that url pop it in an .nfo file along side your movie and its done for you.

[sho]

I am pretty sure this used to work, have you tried?

[C-Quel]

tbh it should work anyway but i cant see me making any changes to accomodate it if not, you would need to look on imdb to get the tt####### anyway so i dont see the point just .nfo it in that case then you never need look again.

[Gamester17]

I also remember that just entering the ID such as "tt0116126" used to work in XBMC.

So try it.

[SandmanCL]

Weird, I thought I tried this. I guess I only tried 0116126 (without the tt). Looking up tt0116126 does indeed work.

[Gamester17]

The ID is "tt0116126" (not "0116126"), search IMDb.com manually on a computer webbrowser and you will see.